Wisconsin Nude Beach Goes Wild

The Department of Natural Resources run beach has become a hotspot for sex and drugs.

It looks like there might be a new Spring Break destination. Wisconsin authorities are having issues with a state maintained nude beach in the town of Mazomaine. It appears that locals are taking things one step beyond making sure every inch of their body is getting sun. The beach has become a local hotspot for (mostly anonymous) sex in the nearby woods and as a place to acquire drugs (via Marshfield News Herald). Activity peaked in 2011 when 42 people were arrested in just nine days. Another week saw 22 citations, a majority of them for sex.

The Department of Natural Resources, which owns and maintains the beach, has cut down brush in the surrounding areas (making it harder to go off and get lucky in the woods) and has limited open hours to daylight weekends only in attempts to curb the behavior. So far, infractions are down but not eliminated: 11 citations have been issued this year. When you factor in that approximately 70,000 people visit the beach each year, the numbers are considerable, but not shocking. The DNR has the winter to figure out what to do with the location, but as of now there are no plans to shut the beach down. In other words, come summer 2014 there will be handfuls more people partying way too hard at a nude beach in Wisconsin.